Cold War Leaders
Cold War Countries
Cold War Anything
Cold War Presidents
Cold War Culture
100
He was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician. He served as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and as president from 1945 until his death, in 1969.
Ho Chi Minh
100
Name this country.
Soviet Union (or Russia)
100
This CIA plan to arm and train Cuban exiles and use them to overthrow Castro was a failure.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
100
President of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. He implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism.
Harry Truman
100
Also known as HUAC, this congressional committee investigated suspected communists. Especially targeting the Hollywood movie industry.
House Un-American Activities Committee
200
He was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
Fidel Castro
200
These two countries are divided by the 38th Parallel.
North and South Korea
200
What was the name of the first satellite launched into outer space?
Sputnik
200
He was the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba
John F. Kennedy
200
_______ and ________ drills were taught to civilians, including school children, as a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion.
Duck and Cover
300
He was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
Joseph Stalin
300
a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
300
This man was the director of the Manhattan Project.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
300
He was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Richard Nixon
300
"_______ ________ is watching" is a reference to the Cold War novel 1984 by George Orwell.
Big Brother
400
He was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Mao Zedong
400
A communist revolution in this country, a close neighbor to the United States, has led to tensions between these two countries for decades.
Cuba
400
This couple was found guilty of selling secrets of the Bomb to the Soviet Union and executed in 1953.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
400
He was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He escalated an arms race and transitioned Cold War policy away from détente with the Soviet Union
Ronald Reagan
400
A Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere.
Joseph McCarthy
500
Name this leader.
Mikhail Gorbachev
500
In what country would this be found?
East Germany
500
Name this military alliance.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
500
Name this president.
Dwight Eisenhower
500
This two-word phrase was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 due to the Red Scare.
Under God